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Deaths

1246 - Mikhail of Chernigov, ruler of Kiev

1384 - King Louis I of Naples (b. 1339)

1460 - Gilles Binchois, Flemish composer

1586 - Chidiock Tichborne, English conspirator and poet (executed) (b. 1558)

1590 - Lodovico Agostini, Italian composer (b. 1534)

1625 - Heinrich Meibom, German historian and critic (b. 1555)

1627 - Jan Gruter, Dutch critic (b. 1560)

1630 - Claudio Saracini, Italian composer (b. 1586)

1639 - Johannes Meursius, Dutch classical scholar (b. 1579)

1643 - Lucius Cary, 2nd Viscount Falkland, English politician and writer

1721 - Thomas Doggett, Irish actor

1803 - Robert Emmet, Irish patriot (b. 1780)

1815 - Nicolas Desmarest, French geologist (b. 1725)

 
 

1852 - Philander Chase, American university founder (b. 1775)

1863 - Jacob Grimm, German folklorist (b. 1785)

1884 - Leopold Fitzinger, Austrian zoologist (b.1802)

1898 - Theodor Fontane, German writer (b. 1819)

1908 - Pablo de Sarasate, Spanish violinist and composer (b. 1844)

1932 - Wovoka, Paiute visionary

1947 - Fiorello LaGuardia, Mayor of New York City (b. 1882)

1957 - Jean Sibelius, Finnish composer (b. 1865)

1971 - Giorgos Seferis, Greek writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1900)

1973 - Jim Croce, American singer and songwriter (b. 1943)

1975 - Saint-John Perse, French diplomat and writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1887)

1979 - Ludvík Svoboda, President of Czechoslovakia (b. 1895)

1993 - Erich Hartmann, German pilot (b. 1922)

 
 

1996 - Paul Erd?s, Hungarian mathematician (b. 1913)

2000 - Gherman Titov, cosmonaut (b. 1935)

2003 - Lord Williams of Mostyn, British politician (b. 1941)

2003 - Simon Muzenda, Zimbabwe politician (b. 1922)

2004 - Brian Clough, English footballer and football manager (b. 1935)

2004 - Townsend Hoopes, American politician (b. 1922)

2005 - Simon Wiesenthal, Austrian-Polish Nazi hunter (b. 1908)

In ancient Greece, the seventh day of the Eleusinian Mysteries, when the secret rites in the Telesterion began.

Feast day of the following saints in the Roman Catholic Church: The Korean Martyrs

Eustace

Vincent Madelgaire

Yves Mayeuc

Francis de Posadas

Thomas Johnson, John Davy, and companions (martyrs).

Feast day of the following saint(s) in the Anglican Church: John Coleridge Patteson

Also see September 20 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

BBC: On This Day

 

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